Schull

Schull or Skull[2] (/ˈskʌl/ SKUL; Irish: An Scoil or Scoil Mhuire, meaning "Mary's School")[2] is a town in County Cork, Ireland.

For other uses, see Schull (disambiguation).
Skull

Schull

Scoil Mhuire / an Scoil
Town
Main Street
Skull
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 51°31′36″N 9°32′53″W
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Cork
Population
 (2016)[1]
700
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceV924317
Websitewww.schull.ie
Schull is located on west Cork's Atlantic coast.

Located on the southwest coast, in West Cork, the village is dominated by Mount Gabriel (407 m). It has a sheltered harbour, used for recreational boating. The area, on the peninsula leading to Mizen Head, is a tourist destination, and there are numerous holiday homes along the adjoining coast. The village had a population of 700 in 2016.[1] The town's secondary school, Schull Community College, houses one of the only planetariums in Ireland,[3] along with a sailing school. Each year Schull harbour hosts the Fastnet International Schools Regatta.

Name

The first recorded place name for this area is "scol", from a Decretal Letter of Pope Innocent III in 1199 to the bishop of Cork confirming the rights of the bishop of Cork. Both Skull and Skul are used in the Down Survey of 1656–58.[4] Skull is also used in the Grand Jury Map surveyed in the 1790s and published 1811.

The Placenames (County Cork) Order of 2012 lists "An Scoil" as the Irish name for the village, in which "Scoil" is translated from "school".[2] This is attributed by some to a school which was ostensibly located in the area.[5][6][7]

However, others question this derivation, and Gary Dempsey's thesis ("Whispered in the Landscape/Written on the Street, A Study of Placename Policy and Conflict in Ireland from 1946 to 2010”) suggests that the "Scoil Mhuire" form dates to 1893 when the parish priest of Schull at the time, Very Rev. John O’Connor (P.P. Schull 1888–1911), who "fancied himself as a historian, misread a latin sentence as referring to a 'College of St. Mary' in Skull; in fact, the text referred to a collegiate church in Waterford but the PP had set the ball rolling".

Transport

Schull once had its own railway station. The village was the western terminus of the Schull and Skibbereen Railway, a steam-operated narrow gauge railway. This was closed by CIÉ in 1947. Schull railway station opened on 6 September 1886, closed for passenger and goods traffic on 27 January 1947, and finally closed altogether on 1 June 1953.

In literature

The book Silver River (2007)[8][9] by Daisy Goodwin includes a section on the efforts of her 3x great-grandfather, the Rector of Skull, to help the populace during the Great Famine.

Notable people

See also

References
  1. "Census 2016 Sapmap Area - Settlements - Schull". CSO. 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  2. "An Scoil / Skull". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. "Welcome To Schull Planetarium". westcorkweb.ie. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. William Petty, ed. (1656). Down Survey Maps - Barony of Carbury – via Library of Trinity College, Dublin.
  5. Kieran McCarthy, Daniel Breen (2013). West Cork Through Time. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445620794. The name is derived from Scoil Mhuire, or Our Lady's SchoolCS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  6. Con O'Leary (1936). Con O'Leary. p. 173. Schull, named from Scoil Mhuire, the School of Mary, in the sixth century
  7. Joseph A. King (1994). Ireland to North America: Emigrants from West Cork. K&K Publications. ISBN 9780888350442. [..] a local school from which some think the village of Schull derived its name.
  8. Goodwin, Daisy (2007). Silver River. Fourth Estate. ISBN 9780006551539.
  9. "Review: 'Silver River' by Daisy Goodwin". theguardian.com. The Guardian. 17 November 2007.
  10. "Timothy O'Hea". findagrave.com. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  11. Saunders, Tristram Fane. "Victoria: what is the truth about the Irish Famine, and who was Robert Traill?". telegraph.co.uk. Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  12. "Singer-songwriter 'Black' dies following car crash in Cork". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
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